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(CLEVELAND, OH – January 18, 2013) MISCO Refractometer, a leader in the field of refractometry, has launched the company's new website at www.misco.com. Current and prospective refractometer buyers now have better access to essential information on MISCO Refractometer products and solutions. The website boasts a modern, clean design with improved navigation, making it easier to find information on products and services. Two special features include a new Refractometer Forum and a Build-Your-Own Refractometer section.
The new Refractometer Forum is a great place for refractometer users to get information about refractometer products and applications. To find the answer to questions, the user can either browse previous Forum questions and answers, or ask experts their own question.
A new Build-Your-Own Refractometer section, an industry first, allows a user to design their own custom digital refractometer. The user is guided through the process of selecting refractometer scales that best represent the fluids that they want to measure, and then are guided through adding various options. At the end of the process, the user can opt to receive an email, with a quote for the custom refractometer, or it can be added to their shopping cart for immediate purchase.
Other innovative features include a new refractometer training section that has many how-to articles on refractometer use and maintenance. Training articles provide step-by-step instructions on obtaining better refractometer performance. There are also technical bulletins covering many different refractometer applications.
"We are very excited about the launch of our new website and feel it will better position MISCO to communicate the extent of our company's many quality products and services," said Michael Caminer, from the MISCO marketing group. "The new website is intended to be a resource for refractometer users and reflects our innovative spirit and unrivaled refractometer technology."
A world leader in the refractometer field, MISCO is headquartered in Cleveland, OH, home to the company for more than 60 years. MISCO designs, manufactures and sells a variety of refractometers, including: digital bench-top laboratory refractometers, inline process control refractometers, digital handheld refractometers, and traditional handheld instruments. For more information, please call (216) 831-1000, or access MISCO's web site at www.misco.com.
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If you've been reading Dr. Dobb's for many years, you may remember "Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner." In that column, Professor Shasha posed puzzles that required computer solutions. Dennis has returned to Dr. Dobb's, but with a new twist on puzzles. The idea is to take inspiration from the challenging apps that readers have faced and to turn those into puzzles.
If you have written an application that required extensive use of heuristics (because no algorithm would solve it) or that is otherwise algorithmically interesting, please send mail to Dennis at [email protected]. Put "Tough Apps" in the subject line. If he likes it, he will contact you. Then he will try to understand what you've done and create a puzzle explaining the algorithmic core. You will write a little blurb about yourself and the problem if you want.
This column came out of such a conversation.
Pat McGuire's organization North American Aviation didn't make normal products in the 1960s and '70s. They designed Minuteman nuclear missiles. Fortunately, the missiles were never fired in anger.
But to make them credible as a deterrent (and to economize on the number of them required), the weapons had to be reliable. Increasing their reliability at a good price was McGuire's job.
"We went to various vendors and asked them how much they could improve the reliability of their components (transistors, diodes, and the like), and how much that would cost. In the end, we paid for whatever gave the most bang for the buck. That is, what could give us the greatest gain in missile performance at minimum cost."
By the end, the mean time between failures was over 5.5 years according to a recent Wikipedia article. The parts included an on-board D17B computer (a solid state cylindrical 10 cubic foot computer designed in the 1960s) that had over 9000 electronic components on 75 circuit boards. Is your 2011-vintage data center that reliable?
I asked Pat whether he valued improvements in parts that were redundant in the missile more or less than others. He said there was little redundancy in those missiles.
Warm-Up: Suppose you have a bunch of non-redundant parts, all of which must work for your device to work. The parts have different reliabilities. (Let's define the reliability of a part as the probability that the part will behave properly over the next year.) Suppose that you could increase the reliability of any part by 0.1. If each such increase costs the same, which part would you pick?
Solution to Warm-Up: The one with the least reliability. That may seem intuitive, but the math is also easy. The reliability of a bunch of independently failing parts is just the product of their probabilities, viz. R = p1 * p2 * p3 ... The partial derivative with respect to π is just the product of the other probabilities. That product is greatest when π is smallest.
For example, if you have two parts having probabilities of success 0.5 and 0.9 respectively, then the overall reliability R = 0.5 * 0.9 = 0.45. Increasing the reliability of the first part by 0.1 gives R = 0.6 * 0.9 = 0.54. Increasing the reliability of the second part by 0.1 gives R = 0.5 * 1 = 0.5.
Whether you are designing a data center or a manned space tourism vehicle, you will probably design in redundancy. (I don't know about the current generation of missiles. It's a subject I find more than a little scary.) How does the analysis change?
Let's take a simple model as illustrated in Figure 1.
Here we have a start and then a "step" composed of three redundant elements P1, P2, and P3. Then another step composed of Q1 and Q2 and then an end. The idea is that in every step, at least one component must be reliable. That is, the whole device "succeeds" provided at least one Pi and at least one Qj is operational.
We assume for this simple analysis that the components have independent failure probabilities. For the purposes of the puzzle, we assume that all the components for a given step have the same probability of working over the one-year period.
Warm-Up: Suppose each Pi has a probability of 0.4 of staying reliable over a year and each Qj has a probability of 0.6. Then the probability that the whole system will work the whole year is the probability that the P step works times the probability that the Q step works. The probability that the P step works is 1 - the probability that the P step fails = 1 - (0.6*0.6*0.6) = 0.784. The reason is that, for the P step to fail, all three P components must fail and they fail independently. By similar reasoning, the Q step will succeed with probability 1 - (0.4*0.4) = 0.84. Both steps will therefore succeed with probability 0.784 * 0.84, which is close to 0.66.
Notice that this model, as simple as it is, permits us to model hierarchical redundancy quite easily. For example, we could have the setting shown in Figure 2:
If each Ri has a probability of being reliable of 0.3, then the bottom path has a probability of being reliable of 1 - (0.74) = 0.76. Recall that the top path has a reliability probability of 0.66. But now, we can conceive of these two paths as having the form of Figure 3.
Here, U1 and B1 are redundant and U1 has a reliability of 0.66 and the bottom has a reliability of 0.76. So the system overall has a probability of being reliable of 1 - ((1-0.66)*(1-0.76)) = 0.92.
The main problem with this model is the assumption that failures are independent. Redundant hardware can sometimes be modeled by the independent failure model, but software failures rarely are. In one project I consulted on a few years ago, 10 physically independent devices all failed because of an unfortunate software bug. (So, if someone claims 99.999% reliability to you sometime, ask about software.)
That caveat aside, let's see if we can solve some interesting puzzles. Here the problem is to take a device that has 10 steps. Each step will be implemented by a component having a certain reliability and a certain number of redundant sisters of that component. We represent those as a pair: (probability each component will remain reliable the whole year, number of components). For example, for the two step P and Q steps of Figure 1, we would represent the steps as: (0.4, 3), (0.6, 2).
In this problem, we have ten steps: (0.4;3), (0.8;2), (0.8;2), (0.9;2), (0.5;3), (0.9;2), (0.6;2), (0.5;3), (0.7;2), and (0.6;2).
The initial total probability that all steps are reliable is only 34.8%, the product of the step reliabilities 0.784, 0.96, 0.96, 0.99, 0.875, 0.99, 0.84, 0.875, 0.91, and 0.84.
As that is not good, we look into the possibility of buying more redundant parts. The costs of buying a single component for each step are respectively: 1, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 5, 2, 3, and 4.
1. What is the lowest budget and how many redundant copies of the components of each step should we have to increase the overall reliability to over 50%.
2. What if our goal is to get to a reliability of over 70%?
1. Get 54% reliability with: (0.4;6), (0.8;2), (0.8;2), (0.9;2), (0.5;4), (0.9;2), (0.6;2), (0.5;4), (0.7;2), and (0.6;3) at a cost of 11.
2. This solution requires a budget of just 24 over the original configuration. (0.4;7), (0.8;2), (0.8;2), (0.9;2), (0.5;5), (0.9;2), (0.6;3), (0.5;5), (0.7;3), and (0.6;3).

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My computer is 4 years old. It runs just fine with Windows 7, thankyouverymuch. I am not at all convinced that (a) Windows 10 will run on this computer, (b) that any or all of my various outdated programs that still work perfectly well (tyvm) can be made to run under Windows 10, assuming the "upgrade" didn't brick the computer, and (c) that the security concerns* being expressed all over the internet are just scaremongering. Nope.
I am told that all editions of Windows 7 will continue to receive security updates until January of 2020.
However... one has to be vewwy, vewwy careful if one does not want to have the Windows 10 "upgrade" inflicted upon their unsuspecting computer.... See, they're being very sneaky, and they have marked it as a "recommended" update. Thus, if your computer is set to download and install recommended updates automatically, you will be "upgraded" to Windows 10 whether you like it or not.
Here is a very good article that explains exactly how not to have this "upgrade" foisted upon you. (You're welcome.) As best I can determine, this procedure will work, for the foreseeable future. If (and when) they invent a further sneak-around to make changes to MY computer without MY permission, all bets are off.... As others have pointed out, Microsoft owns the operating system, and I have purchased a license to use it. But they do NOT own my hardware.
* In case you didn't click over to the Forbes Magazine article, here's a quote:
By default Windows 10 Home is allowed to control your bandwidth usage, install any software it wants whenever it wants (without providing detailed information on what these updates do), display ads in the Start Menu (currently it has been limited to app advertisements), send your hardware details and any changes you make to Microsoft and even log your browser history and keystrokes which the Windows End User Licence Agreement (EULA) states you allow Microsoft to use for analysis.
Hmm. Microsoft as Big Brother? We report, you decide.
And for those whose current Windows 7 (or 8) computer is breathing its last... you can still pick up a brand-new Windows 7 computer at Amazon. There are lots of choices. Brand new, not somebody else's refurbished castoff.
Another thing to be aware of. Many of today's laptops don't come with a CD/DVD drive, apparently because so many people are now "streaming" their content. So if you're shopping, be sure to look out for that.


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Gov. Rick Scott faced a big decision when deciding whom to appoint to the scandal-plagued Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority.
The agency, after all, has been rocked with controversies in recent years. A grand jury went so far as to describe a "culture of corruption" filled with insiders inappropriately mixing private dealings with public money and a bevy of conflicts of interest.
So whom did Rick Scott appoint?
An insider with multiple conflicts of interest.
His name is Scott Batterson. He's a developer and road engineer. And his conflicts are so significant that Batterson recently had to fill out "potential-conflict disclosure" forms to detail all the ways he makes money off the agency now oversees.
All of which prompts me to ask the following learned and erudite question:
Are you bloody kidding me?!?!
Florida has 18 million people. And you're telling me the best guy you can find is someone who literally makes money off the agency you want him to guide?
Apparently what Batterson lacked in independence, he made up for with political connections. His top two references were Seminole County GOP legislators Chris Dorworth and Jason Brodeur.
It's particularly rich that Dorworth would try to shape the toll-road agency, seeing as how, just last year, Dorworth failed to pay so many tolls that the state started to suspend his license.
Batterson's first "potential-conflict form" discloses that one of Batterson's clients pays his company, IBI Group, to "coordinate with the Expressway Authority representatives."
One imagines Batterson will be able to "coordinate" quite nicely for his clients, now that he's one of the five members controlling the authority.
Even more troubling, though, was Batterson's second conflict of interest: one where Batterson identifies himself as the "project manager" for a massive development called Kelly Park Crossing, controlled by big-time landowner and GOP donor Jim Palmer.
The expressway is poised to spend millions of dollars on Palmer's and Batterson's project for the construction of the Wekiva Parkway.
In fact, the Sentinel recently ran a front-page story describing Palmer as potentially "the biggest beneficiary of the planned $1.8 billion Wekiva Parkway."
Now Palmer's very own "project manager" is a member of the board that will decide how much to pay him.
Sure, there are laws supposed to prohibit Batterson from actually voting on a deal that would put money in his own pocket.
But he's still directing an agency full of staffers who make recommendations that could benefit his clients.
And that is simply ridiculous.
Many Central Floridians already distrust this agency, which has engaged in shady financial deals, leaned on contractors to make political donations and raised tolls smack-dab in the middle of a recession.
This agency needs someone to rebuild the public's trust — not someone whose personal business is already tied to it.
I asked Batterson about all this, and he was peppy in his response.
"Thanks for writing," he responded. "I'm a huge fan."
I figured Batterson might be less of a fan once I told him I thought he should resign. But he seemed unfazed.
"I am WELL aware of the state's ethics laws," he wrote in an email, "and can assure you and all your readers that I will meticulously obey both the spirit and letter of those laws."
Batterson may be the nicest, smartest, most honest and most experienced 36-year-old Florida has to offer.
He still has no business serving on this board.
And anyone with a lick of sense — or an ounce of commitment to good government — knows that.
That was supposed to be what Rick Scott was all about.
In fact, just last week, I offered the governor unabashed praise for trying to clean up the mess at Workforce Central Florida. Yet now he's now creating a whole new one.
There's a remote chance Scott didn't know how conflicted his new appointment truly was.
Though Batterson's original application included several references to potential conflicts, he didn't fill out the detailed conflict forms until two weeks ago — after he was appointed in July and after the Sentinel highlighted the money Palmer was expected to pocket.
OK, governor, now there is no doubt.
Now the conflicts are out there for everyone to see.
And now you can do what you should have already: Get him out of there.
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DON PESCI: The retreat from education reform
"We have a very fundamental disagreement here. You see this is what happens when you rush. ...When you are trying to fly the plane and build it at the same time ... you move too quickly, and you end up with controversies" -- Sharon Palmer, president of the American Federation of Teachers Connecticut.
Hours after a USA Today columnist draped around Gov. Dannel Malloy's shoulders the mantle of Roger Sherman, the Connecticut delegate to the Constitutional Convention responsible for offering the "Great Compromise" that unified the convention and paved the way to a ratification of the U.S. Constitution, a wing came off Mr. Malloy's educational reform plane.
"This month," USA Today proclaimed, "Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy signed into law a compromise bill that could be a blueprint for meaningful education reform in the other 49 states.
The bill, which passed with near-unanimous support from Republicans and Democrats, is a broad attack on the state's troubled public schools... Recognizing the dire consequences of failing to fix this problem, the governor and legislators overcame partisan bickering and produced a law that also won the backing of public school administrators and teachers' unions."
The Palmer quote above may be found in a story titled, ominously, "Teacher Evaluations: January's Dream Agreement Now On The Rocks: Misunderstanding On Key Issue Of Student Test Scores."
The January "Dream Agreement" is the same "Great Compromise"tooted in the USA Today opinion piece.
The sticking point for teachers and unions concerns the percentage of a teacher's evaluation that would be based on students' performance on tests. Last February, both sides appeared to agree that 45 percent of the evaluation was to be based on "multiple student learning indicators," and half of that measure was to be based on standardized test scores.
The present disagreement centers on the remaining 22.5 percent. Teacher unions now insist that this portion of the evaluation should include measures of student performance other than tests, while representatives of school administrators and superintendents insist that this portion of the teacher evaluations could include tests.
This management-labor disagreement -- which would profoundly affect the education reforms proposed by Mr. Malloy, reducing by a considerable amount the role played in education reform by measurable objective data -apparently surfaced only recently within the state's Performance Evaluation Advisory Council, the group charged with producing a compromise plan between teachers and administrators that would implement the reforms Mr. Malloy has insisted are necessary to reduce Connecticut's first in the nation education gap between performing and non-performing public schools.
The real rift here involves the usual management-worker tug of war: When Mr. Malloy first unscrolled his reforms, his proposed changes seemed to hold out the promise of greater management control over the hiring of good teachers and the firing of inadequate teachers by principals and superintendents. Teacher evaluations linked to student performance, a measurable datum, along with tenure linked to teacher evaluations, would give school managers greater control over the educational product in under-performing public schools.
That lofty ambition soon crashed into a wall of union opposition. Everywhere Mr. Malloy went to sell his reforms to the real customers of public education - the tax paying public and the parents of students in under-performing schools, for many years the victims of an inadequate public school education - the governor met with an unbendable opposition on the part of teachers, their union leaders and the usual culprits in the media and academia, all of whom are heavily invested in the maintenance of the status quo.
And the end result of all the palavering is: Non performing schools will receive more money; the schooling net, now approaching cradle to grave union directed "education," will embrace more students, leading to the hiring of more teachers; teacher evaluations have been rolled back; the coupling of employment and performance as measured by objective data has been loosened; and the state a few days ago was graced with the presence of U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who granted Connecticut a waiver from the rigors of the federal No Child Left Behind requirements during the 2013-14 school year.
One news report noted: "Calling the state's evaluation framework 'meaningful', Duncan did not weigh in on how much of a teachers' grade should be tied to standardized tests."
Of course he didn't. That matter is on the point of being decided by union muscle. Why should politicians intervene vigorously on behalf of students in the state who are receiving a below par education?
According to recent figures, one in five Connecticut high school students failed to graduate on time or at all; and of high school students who graduated in 2004, just two in five had earned a degree or certificate from college six years out. Why destroy the fantasy that the majority of teacher evaluations will in any firm sense be coupled to student performance?
Don Pesci is a writer who lives in Vernon. E-mail him email@example.com.


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Matt Brown shows off some ways to add some creativity and originality to your rock chord voicings.
Taught by Matt Brown in Rock Guitar with Matt Brown seriesLength: 11:59Difficulty: 1.5 of 5
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Hi! can you point out something specific, so I know exactly what you are talking about? That way, I'll have an easier time figuring out where you're coming from. One thing that might be throwing you off is how a capo-ed guitar is notated. When a capo is used, the location of the capo becomes the "0" fret.
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Chuck Berry among others pioneered the style of rock and roll in the 1950's. Today, rock and roll remains the most popular genre of music. Over the years the genre has progressed & spawned many sub-genres: soft rock, classic rock, punk rock, and more. Dive into this Phase 2 set of lessons to become a master of rock.
Lesson 1
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Matt Brown discusses some of the fundamentals to playing lead.Length: 15:41 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Learn the basic minor, natural, and major scales. Quite a few techniques & ideas start with scales - they're an essential building block.Length: 34:15 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Learn various techniques to use when improvising / soloing.Length: 12:51 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Matt explains the most effective way to tune your guitar down.Length: 7:18 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 11
Learn how to establish finger independence and a few tips and tricks with barre chords.Length: 37:18 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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In this lesson, Matt Brown introduces a rock lick and shows how several famous players have modified it.Length: 19:30 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 13
In this lesson Matt teaches some crucial rock sequences. He also explains how these sequences can be integrated in to your playing.Length: 34:52 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 14
Matt Brown focuses on string skipping technique. He provides several exercises designed to improve this aspect of your playing.Length: 33:09 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Lesson 15 in Matt's rock series is all about intervals.Length: 34:47 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 16
Matt Brown demonstrates lead guitar techniques using Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion" as an example.Length: 29:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 17
Matt Brown explains which scales can be used when playing a solo over a diatonic progression in a major key. As an example, he teaches the solo section to Candlebox's song "Far Behind."Length: 33:02 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 18
This lesson covers the natural minor scale and diatonic natural minor progressions. Matt uses the solo section to "Stairway to Heaven" as an example.Length: 24:55 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 19
In lesson 19 Matt provides instruction on developing right hand skills including string skipping.Length: 26:38 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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In lesson 20, Matt discusses chord progressions that don't follow a diatonic tonality.Length: 29:07 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 21
Matt begins to discuss and demonstrate the harmonic minor scale.Length: 29:46 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 22
In lesson 22, Matt continues his discussion of the harmonic minor tonality.Length: 14:36 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 23
In lesson 23, Matt takes a look at the solo section for the song "Sweet Child O' Mine."Length: 19:43 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 24
Matt will be taking a look at the solo section from the live version of the Smashing Pumpkins song "Today".Length: 7:29 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 25
Matt Brown reviews and discusses the solo section to AC/DC's hit "Back In Black".Length: 9:34 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 26
In lesson 26, Matt covers the solo section from the Alice in Chains song "Brother".Length: 9:42 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 27
Matt Brown discusses lead guitarists, what makes a good solo, and tips for your own lead playing.Length: 41:06 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
Lesson 28
Matt Brown teaches a number of exercises aimed at improving your legato playing technique.Length: 37:16 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 29
Matt Brown demonstrates a few exercises to build skill and speed in your right hand.Length: 15:06 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 30
Matt Brown teaches Heitor Villa-Lobos' 1st Etude as a lesson in string skipping.Length: 38:47 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 31
Matt Brown demonstrates how to play three octave versions of the minor pentatonic and the major scales in all 12 keys.Length: 16:56 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 32
Matt Brown demonstrates how to play all seven of the diatonic intervals within the framework of a horizontal major scale.Length: 23:01 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 33
Matt Brown discuss diatonic arpeggios as a theory lesson as well as demonstrating the technique.Length: 9:55 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 34
Matt Brown explains how to play the diatonic seventh chords of the major scale. Similar to lesson 32, this lesson takes a horizontal approach to the fretboard.Length: 10:46 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 35
Matt Brown teaches a progression and accompanying solo to demonstrate ideas for creating your own.Length: 21:34 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 36
Matt Brown takes a look at another chord progression and solo.Length: 17:29 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 37
In lesson 37 of the Rock Series, Matt Brown demonstrates and talks about legato playing ideas.Length: 21:24 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 38
Matt Brown switches gears in lesson 38 to start talking about rhythm concepts for rock playing.Length: 27:44 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 39
Matt Brown discusses some often used techniques to build effective rock compositions.Length: 17:27 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 40
Matt Brown shows off some ways to add some creativity and originality to your rock chord voicings.Length: 11:59 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
Lesson 41
Matt Brown takes another look at his approach to soloing. He demonstrates ideas you can use in your own playing.Length: 12:10 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 42
Matt Brown adds practice to his lead approach by giving you another chord progression to solo over.Length: 7:14 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 43
Matt Brown has another chord progression and solo exercise to go over in this lesson on lead approach.Length: 10:25 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 44
Matt Brown takes another look at string skipping. He breaks down some key areas of Matteo Carcassi's Allegro as an exercise.Length: 16:29 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Matt Brown began playing the guitar at the age of 11. "It was a rule in my family to learn and play an instrument for at least two years. I had been introduced to a lot of great music at the time by friends and their older siblings. I was really into bands like Nirvana, Alice In Chains, and Smashing Pumpkins, so the decision to pick up the guitar came pretty easily."
Matt's musical training has always followed a very structured path. He began studying the guitar with Dayton, Ohio guitar great Danny Voris. I began learning scales, chords, and basic songs like any other guitarist. After breaking his left wrist after playing for only a year, Matt began to study music theory in great detail. I wanted to keep going with my lessons, but I obviously couldn't play at all. Danny basically gave me the equivalent of a freshman year music theory course in the span of two months. These months proved to have a huge impact on Brown's approach to the instrument.
Brown continued his music education at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He completed a degree in Classical Guitar Performance in 2002. While at Capital, he also studied jazz guitar and recording techniques in great detail. "I've never had any desire to perform jazz music. Its lack of relevance to modern culture has always turned me off. However, nothing will improve your chops more than studying this music."
Matt Brown currently resides in Dayton, Ohio. He teaches lessons locally as well as at Capital University's Community Music School. Matt's recent projects include writing and recording with his new, as of yet nameless band as well as the formation of a cover band called The Dirty Cunnies.
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12 comments:
- Anonymous said...
The notion that our soldiers are in Iraq to "protect our freedom" is ludicrous. Bothers me when people say it, and to hear one of our soldiers say it is no different. Maybe that's what he has to believe to keep fighting this war that Bush started for no apparent reason other than revenge. No one has ever demonstrated the Iraqi threat to my "freedom" prior to 2003.
Other than that, I really can't comment on this video otherwise. A friend and I once destroyed (with fire and an axe) a brand new lawnmower that would not work, no matter how much we tried to get help from the distributor and manufacturer. We took Poloroids. I'm that old.
- 09 June, 2010 06:43
- LiberalGunner said...
Did he really want something for nothing? Tech support is a privilege not a right. Why should he have special treatment?
- 09 June, 2010 06:56
- Anonymous said...
@ LiberalGunner Kinda sounds like socialism. Getting something you want because someone else worked for it.
- 09 June, 2010 07:46
- gruaud said...
This fails on so many levels.
- 09 June, 2010 08:45
- Anonymous said...
So you're telling me that none of the tech guys in the Army might be able to help him?
Also, why do our troops hate the free market? Shouldn't he have known before he bought it that fixing it would cost more money? Its called big business, sir, and sadly you're fighting for it a lot more than you're fighting for anyone's "freedom".
- 09 June, 2010 09:46
- Anonymous said...
You guys are missing a great oppourtunity! Which current (as of today) Republican candidate is a former head of HP? Carly Fiorina, of course!
I can see it now:
"Carly Fiorina directed a company which screws over soldiers, the same soldiers which were fighting for YOUR FREEDOM!. Now she wants to represent us in the Senate? Lets say no way to the greedy troop hater!"
- 09 June, 2010 09:48
- ferschitz said...
1. Sorry soldier, but this is the freedom that you're fighting for: the freedom to pay for that conservative wet dream of the marketplace. If you believed the conservative hype about "support the troops," then I'm very sorry to tell you that you were LIED to by Bush on down. They don't support you, and they never will. You are just serf cannon-fodder. Get used to it.
2. Agree with last Anon post: Carly Fiorina nearly ran HP into the ground. I own HP stock, and it's taken YEARS for the company to "come back" after being severely mis-managed by La Fiorina. Of course, she got this obscene golden parachute when the Hewlett and Packard families kicked her sorry butt out of HP. And so, soldier, you can THANK Fiorina for the rip-out Tech Support fees that you have to pay to fix your printer. HP didn't used to charge those fees, but they do now bc of how much it cost (billions) to kick Fiorina out of HP.
3. And now, Mr. Soldier, Carly Fiorina is using the obscene amounts of money that she got for being an utter disaster of a CEO for HP (if I was as abjectly crappy in my job, as Fiorina was, I would have been fired a long ago and with no golden parachute. Nice for Fiorina - eh?) to run for Senator of CA. Doesn't make sense to you, Soldier? Yeah: doesn't make sense to me, either, but hey: Carly is a Republican, so Fiorina "supports the troops" as much as Bush does: which is NOT AT ALL.
4. PAY up Soldier: this the the freedom that you're fighting so hard for: the freedom to be ripped off by the obscenely wealthy, like Fiorina, even when your in the combat zone. And now: Fiorina, because she's bored or something, is using her billions to buy herself a Senate seat... no doubt so that she can get in on all the payola that our Senators and Congress folk get from all of the other giant corporations. Don't expect Fiorina to "support the troops" anymore if she becomes a Senator... Fiorina is only out for whatever money she can grab for herself.
5. Good luck with that, Soldie, because, truly, you're on your own. Don't expect any help from Republicans because they won't give it to you. Pay up, put up and STFU is their motto. Get used to it.
- 09 June, 2010 10:47
- Anonymous said...
My HP printer quit working, HP tech support helped figure out the problem for free, and sent me a new print head for free. It was still under warranty, though, and I didn't get obnoxious at the tech support guy which always helps.
- 09 June, 2010 11:59
- Hooray4US said...
HP does charge for Tech Support if the item is not under warranty. HP hardware is pretty cheap. Where HP makes money is from consumables and tech support.
Hey: it's the vaunted marketplace. That's the way it works; let the buyer beware.
Agree with ferschitz that Carly Fiorina was a nightmare for HP; is a lousy business "manager;" and it's painful to watch CA Republicans worshipping at her feet because of her "business acumen." I wish Republicans would be consistent and actually elect someone with talent, but I might as well wish for a billion dollars for me, rather than for rip-off Fiorina.
- 09 June, 2010 14:25
- katz said...
Great catch, anonymous. She won, too.
Dirty secret: I voted crossover Republican for her. Replacing Tom "Potentially Serious Candidate" Campbell with Carly "Demon Sheep" Fiorina should keep Barbara Boxer's seat secure.
- 09 June, 2010 16:53
- Tootseye said...
It seems like Republicans just want to vote for rich people to get into office. Doesn't matter what their skills or knowledge or capabilities or competencies are. Just that they're filthy rich. Maybe they think it'll trickle down to them?? Good luck with that because most rich people are the biggest tightwads. Guess they have their voters bamboozled though.
- 10 June, 2010 10:45
- Anonymous said...
While I understand the "something for nothing" argument, what about the "stand by your products" argument. I do find it somewhat grating when you purchase something, it stops working that neither the store you purchased it from or the manufacturer will give you any advice. Sure, maybe is does cost them moeny, but what are the odd s the next printer this guy buys is from HP?
- 10 June, 2010 15:42


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Proposals for a Cost-Conscious Era: "Gold Star Teachers"
Given today's shrinking budgets and the tough half-decade that looms for K-12 funding, we can no longer afford to remain wedded to "this...and that" reform or to be blasé about whether we're getting sufficient bang for our buck. However, the kind of shift in mindset that's necessary will not happen on its own. After all, for decades, K-12 schooling has been a place where superintendents and principals earn much grief for making cuts but little recognition for smart savings or boosting cost-effectiveness. What's needed most are politically viable proposals that make it easier for local, state, and national leaders to get serious about K-12 productivity.
This week, I'm touching upon four such ideas that I've written about recently for National Review and (along with my colleague Olivia Meeks) for the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. Today, I want to talk about taking a first step in rethinking the utilization and compensation of teachers through a "Gold Star Teachers" initiative. (Check out the WPRI piece for a more detailed version of the proposal.)
For decades, the go-to school improvement recipe has been to reduce class size. Any challenge to this status quo encounters a buzz saw of opposition from parents and teachers who like small classes. That's why national teacher-student ratios are down to 15:1 today. Yet the research backing across-the-board class reduction is thin, at best. International evidence shows no simple relationship between class size and student achievement. Some high-performing nations boast middle or high school class sizes of 40 to 50 students. Small classes are costly and the need to keep adding bodies forces school systems to be less selective and training to be less focused.
Given that 55% of K-12 spending funds teacher salaries and benefits, you can't cut costs without boosting the productivity of good teachers--which requires increasing class size. But trying to sell that argument to parents or teachers is a dead end. Hence, the Gold Star program offers teachers who are at least reasonably effective the opportunity, should they so choose, to teach more kids per class and to be rewarded for taking on a larger workload. Such a state-level program would offer a chance to reshuffle the incentives and create a productivity-enhancing dynamic.
Teachers whose students post larger-than-normal gains for at least two consecutive years would be eligible to opt into the program. While I have consistently explained that value-added data systems have real limitations, they do provide a systematic way to identify teachers whose students are at least improving in math and reading at better-than-average rates. This gives some assurance that these teachers are at least reasonably effective. Participating teachers would teach up to 50% more students than normal--say, 36 students rather than 24--and would be rewarded for their increased workload. Continued participation would depend on a teacher's students continuing to make larger-than-normal gains. Given data limitations, states would be advised to pilot such programs in grades four through eight.
While parents prefer small classes in general, small classes also frustrate parents whose children can't get seats in the class of a heralded teacher. The Gold Star program lowers these barriers by allowing access to the most effective teachers for more kids. Given the choice between a Gold Star Teacher serving more children and the alternative, many or most parents will likely prefer the larger class. But it is essential that it be a parental choice and not an administrative fiat.
Teachers and taxpayers would also win big. On average, given current teacher salaries and benefits, increasing class size by one student saves something like $3,000; so allowing a talented teacher to instruct 36 rather than 24 saves up to $36,000. Awarding the teacher half that amount yields an $18,000 productivity bonus (a 35% bump for the median teacher). The state and district would split the other $18,000. Even on a trial basis in grades four through eight, such a program could help states shave school spending by two or three percent--tallying hundreds of millions in some cases while rewarding excellent educators.
There are obviously a slew of tough logistical and practical questions. Can one do a version of this in sparsely settled rural settings? How might this work in very small schools? How would uneven student numbers complicate the effort? And how might this play out in terms of virtual schooling? It's not hard to imagine many other questions, besides. These are good and useful queries, and deserving of attention as state officials ask how a version of the "Gold Star" initiative might help reward productive teachers, boost cost-effectiveness, and better serve their students.


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UC QB Legaux receives extra eligibility after injury
WR Washington also granted another year
Cincinnati quarterback Munchie Legaux has received an extra year of eligibility from the NCAA after missing most of last season because of a gruesome knee injury.
The American Athletic Conference announced Wednesday that hardship waivers had been approved by the NCAA for Legaux and Bearcats receiver Shaq Washington.
Legaux will have one more year of eligibility. Washington, who missed most of the 2011 season with an injury, has two years left.
Legaux was injured Sept. 7 at Illinois. He was hit while trying to pass and his left leg bent awkwardly, damaging several ligaments. He is still rehabilitating his knee and hopes to be ready for fall camp.
Legaux has thrown for 2,847 yards and 20 touchdowns and run for 627 yards and seven scores in 31 games for the Bearcats.
Notre Dame transfer Gunner Kiel and junior college transfer Jarred Evans are expected to take most of the reps during spring football for Cincinnati, which begins Feb. 27, 2014.
Washington had 78 catches for 783 yards last season.


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A warm reprieve from winter is waiting up north
The difference could hardly have been more pronounced.
There I was very early in the morning, a couple of hours before sun-up, driving through Orange in the Central West of NSW, bound for the 'Bullet', the train which departs Bathurst week days just before 6am for Sydney.
It was snowing, yes snowing, and heavily enough to settle on the road. Flurries of fluffy white stuff might be romantic in the right setting, but that setting certainly wasn't at that time of day on the Mitchell Highway.
Instead, it made driving conditions quite uninviting … indeed dangerous.
Sitting on the 'Bullet' was different enough, though certainly not different enough to make it inviting to disembark in the Blue Mountains, where snow was settling by the tracks and on what seemed like some quite low hills.
Fast forward a few hours to Queensland's Hamilton Island, where I was staying for a couple of nights at the very plush Beach Club, just across the road from the popular, and often populous, high-rise Reef View, and right on its private stretch of beach.
They were in the middle of their own cold spell, suffering their own chilly Antarctic blast.
But 18ºC and a bright sunny day are quite different to –3ºC and virtually zero visibility.
The differences include swimming without joining the Bondi Icebergs, strolling comfortably along the beach in shorts, and just lying in the sun without having to seek out that particular sheltered spot.
The excellent crowd at Destination NSW — and, I'm sure, the people at Visit Victoria and Discover Tasmania —do a fine job singing the praises of snuggling up in front of an open fire, and yes, I do love the cold.
But I can also see the attraction of heading to warmer climes, such as northern Queensland's, at winter holiday time.
Online travel company Expedia, for instance sees at least a 20 per cent increase in bookings June-versus-May to areas such as the Gold Coast, Whitsundays, Brisbane, Port Douglas, Townsville and the Sunshine Coast.
I'm sure that's a trend that continues right through winter and into early spring.
"What's great about this country is that you don't have to leave Australia's borders to escape the winter blues," said Lisa Perkovic, one of Expedia's destination experts.
"Just a quick flight from Sydney or Melbourne to Queensland and you're stepping off the plane to warm weather without the hefty price tag — or the hassle — of heading international."
She pointed to the Whitsunday Islands as an area that southern Aussies particularly loved heading to in colder months.
"The weather is drier than in the summer months and as a bonus, it is outside stinger season," said Lisa.
"Australians heading to the Whitsundays for a winter escape can expect to pay an average of $360 per night.
"We're so lucky in Australia to have such a wonder as the Great Barrier Reef.
"People come from all over the world to see if, so we should encourage as many locals as possible to experience the wonder of the turquoise waters and stunning reef.
"There are a wide range of ways to experience the reef — by plane and by boat, including up-close scuba diving or snorkelling for the adventurous.
"There really is something for everyone."


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Jeffrey "Jeff" Zucker (born April 9, 1965) is an American television executive and former President and CEO of NBC Universal.
Zucker was born to Jewish-American parents in Homestead, Florida, near Miami. His father was a cardiologist, and his mother, Arlene, was a school teacher. He has a younger sister, Pam.
He was captain of the North Miami Senior High School tennis team, editor of the school paper, and a teenage freelance reporter ("stringer") for The Miami Herald. The 5-foot-6-inch (1.68 m) Zucker also served as president of his senior class, running on the slogan: "The little man with the big ideas." Before college, he took part in Northwestern University's National High School Institute program for journalism.


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Freda is mysterious and anonymous.
She walks the hills of San Francisco with purpose. Her style is classic, a bit androgynous, with flair for edginess. She's always up for new adventures. She marches to the beat of her own drum. She's fashion-forward but she values comfort, veering away from the misconception that beauty is pain. She loves rock 'n' roll. She's a San Francisco chick through and through.
Freda Salvador is the creation of San Francisco residents Cristina Palomo-Nelson and Megan Papay. Combining their mutual obsession for Frida Kalho ("more like her badass persona than her folkloric art") and Palomo-Nelson's El Salvadorian origins, the duo created footwear brand Freda Salvador. They launched the company two years ago with the intention of bringing contemporary artisan shoes to Bay Area Fredas.
"We wanted to create a fictional character that's bigger than us," explains Palomo-Nelson in the company's Union Street design studio and flagship store.
The Freda Salvador store is a combination of the pair's personal styles: Palomo-Nelson sticks to the classics with an edge, wearing an oversized blazer, a simple white blouse, ripped jeans and the line's popular black "Star" Jodhpur ankle boots. She comes from a shoe-making family in Central America; her studies in fashion and footwear design brought her to Milan and then San Francisco, where she's lived for 13 years.
Her blonde counterpart, Papay, veers toward a simple bohemian look with paint-stained jeans, a boxy sweater, a chunky statement necklace, and her favorite "Roam" lace-up combat boots with studded welt. Papay hails from the East Coast, via Delaware, Virginia, and New York City, where she began her fashion career in celebrity styling for Calvin Klein, then at top fashion public relations firms. Her husband's job moved her to San Francisco, where she began working at a comfort footwear company. The soft-spoken designers met there, working together for a year.
"The chemistry was really great," says Papay. "Our desire to create the same aesthetic of shoe was there so we decided to do our own thing and launch Freda."
With Palomo-Nelson's background in footwear construction and Papay's experience in fashion trends, the footwear brand has become a household name in the industry. Seen on the heels of fashion bloggers, in magazine editorials, and on fashion must-have lists, Freda shoes balance high fashion aesthetics with no-fuss comfort.
"A big source of our inspiration comes from men's shoes," says Palomo-Nelson. "Easy, classic, concentration on lines and materials."
"And wearable details," adds Papay. "In ladies' fashion, the details are a little bit bizarre to the point where they're not wearable or understandable. In men's shoes the flair is always wearable because no boy is going to sacrifice anything for style."
The designers prefer to stick to classic shapes like Jodhpur boots, oxfords, and loafers and incorporate some sort of edgy detail: removable bracelets and harnesses, mixed leathers, haircalf accents, and studded soles.
With San Francisco consumers in mind, the designs rely heavily on comfort. Each shoe is entirely made of leather with padded footbeds. "They're made to be put on at 7 o'clock in the morning and taken off at 11 o'clock at night," says Papay. "Our shoes are perfect for the city, walkable and urban."
The beauty of the shoes also lies in the craftsmanship. Palomo-Nelson and Papay travel to Italy twice a year to pick out leathers for the next season. They then design the shoes in San Francisco based on trend watching and trips to New York Fashion Week. After that, they travel to Spain for production. The shoes are handmade in a small family-run factory in Elda, Spain.
"We truly are blessed. We live in one of the best cities in the world. We travel to New York for shows all the time and then Italy and Spain for our production," says Palomo-Nelson.
The San Francisco flagship store is the company's only retail location and doubles as the pair's design studio. With wood paneling and staircase, the store mixes a rustic, comfort atmosphere with modern simplicity. The shoes are aligned on metal shelves and vintage bookcases in the first room. A small Dia de los Muertos-inspired shrine to Frida Khalo sits on a shelf in the corner. On the walls of the second room are framed old black and white photos. In the third room — the design studio — a giant mood board with color swatches, fashion editorials and a large painting of Frida Kahlo hangs above a large wooden table.
"It was in our five year plan," says Palomo-Nelson about setting up a retail location. "But I think it's the best thing we could have done. We really built a presence and a brand point with our physical location where people can experience not just the shoes but also the aesthetic of who we are and our designs."
At the store, the designers will occasionally get phone calls asking for Freda. They also sell T-shirts with the question "Who is Freda Salvador" printed. But there is no answer: This mysterious woman was created so that women could build their own idea of Freda based on their personal style and inspirations.
"We're like, 'No, there actually is no Freda,'" says Papay. "But it's good. It's meant to be that way."


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Jenny Sages
Paths To Portraiture
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Born in Shanghai of Russian parentage, Sages came to Australia in 1948. A painter of extraordinary vitality and originality, her work is characterized by complex technique and a profound depth of feeling. After working professionally for thirty years as an illustrator, she devoted herself fully to painting in 1983 after a life-changing journey to the Kimberley in Australia's northwest.
"It was an epiphany. There are no two ways around it. It is was as if someone had poured something down my throat and I certainly began to feel that this is me, this is what I have to live. From then on, I tried to get that feeling back again and the only way I could was by by working." Jenny Sages
She won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting in 2005 and the Portia Geach Memorial Award for Portraiture twice. Her work was celebrated with a survey exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2010. In 2012, her self-portrait "After Jack" was both runner-up in the Archibald Prize and winner of the People's Choice Award. It was the twentieth time she had been selected for the Archibald. Jenny Sages: Paths to Portraiture seeks to understand the forces that have shaped her work and the process by which she extends her vision.